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MANILA: Philippine authorities have launched an investigation into the death of a 28-year-old man who was allegedly forced to do nearly 300 repetitions of a squat-like exercise after he flouted coronavirus disease (COVID-19) quarantine rules last week. According to reports, Darren Manaog Peñaredondo, 28, was apprehended by village watchmen on April 1 in General Trias City, Cavite province, south of the nation’s capital, Manila, while he was outside their house to buy water after 6 p.m. Cavi...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Youths of Allawa community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State has threatened to mobilize their displaced and hopeless kinsmen to occupy and take shelter in Government facilities within Minna if Government refuses to draft the Joint Security Force Team to the area. Issuing the threats at a press conference in Minna, the President, Lakpma Youth Assembly, Jibrin Allawa said the withdrawal of military operations following the recent attack and killing of fi...

Views: Visits 9 The Zamfara State Government has said its dialogue and peace deal with bandits in the area has recorded tremendous success. According to the state, in the two years of Governor Matawalle’s administration, over sixty-two bandits repented and embraced the peace initiative. This disclosure was made by the state’s Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara on Thursday, during a press conference. According to him, the peace deal has also led to the release of ove...

Punch Newspapers Sections Abiodun Nejo and Bola Bamigbola Published 1:59 am Published 1:59 am The police and Amotekun Corps in Ekiti and Osun states have said they will intensify efforts at combing the bushes and forests in the state to ensure the rural areas, as well as the cities, are free of killer herdsmen and other criminals. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, said, “The issue of combing the forests has been on for a long time by the operatives of t...

By Laleye Dipo Just three days after men of the Joint Security Taskforce left their camps at Allawa and Bassa villages in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, gunmen have invaded Allawa community, sacking the villagers from their abodes. Men of the Joint Taskforce left the bases last Friday, a day after bandits raided the camps killing six soldiers and a policeman and also setting the camps on fire after burning their operational vehicles. The Niger State Government had defended the ac...

 The French Energy company Total withdrew all its personnel from its Afungi liquid natural gas (LNG) facility near Palma, on Friday, in the wake of last week’s insurgent attack. This full withdrawal has placed a large question mark over the future of the $60-billion project to tap Mozambique’s vast Rovuma Basin offshore gas reserves which it is counting on for its future development. Total had announced a partial withdrawal after insurgents affiliated to Islamic State overran Palma last we...

SADC grapples with response while mercenaries, energy companies and civilians quit Mozambique’s Islamic State crisis Peter Fabricius © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Regional leaders are drafting a response to try to curb Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique and prevent a recurrence of attacks like the one on the northern town of Palma over the past week, which killed scores of civilians, including one South African contractor. The attack devasta...

Published on: Thursday, April 01, 2021 By: Stefyanie Myla Micheal The vaccine was flown by RMN’s Fennec helicopter. Kota Kinabalu: The Royal Malaysian Navy’s (RMN) Fennec helicopter, which arrived at the RMN base in Sepanggar on March 8, was tasked to carry a supply of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, to 936 frontline personnel, Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The vaccine would be supplied to the Navy People at Naval Region 2 (Mawilla 2) in Sandakan, 516 Territorial Army Regiment and...

For over a decade, the North-eastern region of Nigeria has been ravaged by insecurity, as the militant group Boko Haram has destabilised border communities. The damage ranges from loss of life to destruction of property and farmlands. We analysed the efforts of various state and non-state actors (both local and international) to address these security challenges, and found evidence of uncoordinated actions between government agencies and other stakeholders. This has forced international actors...

Published on: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 By: PNA Police officer checks on a motorcycle rider at a checkpoint. MANILA: A total of 1,449 violators were arrested on the first day of the re-implementation of curfew hours in Metro Manila, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Cesar Hawthorne Binag, PNP deputy chief for operations and Joint Task Force Covid-19 Shield commander, said the start of the implementation of curfew in Metro Manila was deemed “generally successful,�...